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By Ali Kareem Ozheb

2023 has seen the announcement of a spate of invitations for potential accessions to BRICS—an emerging economic and geopolitical bloc currently comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. On the heels of this, a number of other countries are also looking to join....

By Paul Goncharoff

With all the geopolitical and economic upheavals happening on what seems an accelerated daily basis, often important details get lost in the urgency of other events. Over the past weeks we have seen BRICS steadily growing, and just the Belt & Road forum has shown clear, goal dri...

By Rhod Mackenzie

It has been proposed that twenty-four ships be constructed at Goa Shipyard Ltd, an Indian state-owned shipyard. The ships are intended to operate as part of the " North-South International Transportation Corridor" which goes from Russia to Iran via the Caspian Sea then across tha...

By Evgeny Tipailov , Ivan Angulo

In August 2023, the BRICS summit ended very successfully. Starting January 1, 2024, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, the UAE, Egypt and Iran will officially join the association. Together with the founders of BRICS, these states comprise almost half of the world'...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The 22nd Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Member States is scheduled for Thursday in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.

This will be the first face-to-face meeting of the prime ministers of the SCO member states subse...

By Ali Fathollah-Nejad and Amin Naeni

At the 15th annual BRICS Summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 22–24 August 2023, six new members were admitted into the bloc from 2024 onwards: Argentina, Ethiopia, and four states from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, namely Egypt, Sau...